Caramel M&M’s aren’t exactly new (they were introduced in 2017), but considering how much of a no-brainer the chocolate/caramel combo is, it’s surprising that it took that long.
It’s pretty much exactly what you want it to be. The intense sweetness is a bit of a shock at first (the best M&M’s flavours, like peanut and pretzel, work as well as they do because they balance out the sweetness of the chocolate and the candy shell), but it grows on you. The caramel has a satisfying butterscotch-infused flavour that works quite well with the sweet chocolate.
I wish the caramel were a bit creamier, however — it’s not exactly at Reisen levels of intense chewiness, but it does stick to your teeth a bit. It kinda reminded me of what you’ll find in a Rolo. It generally works, but the best M&M’s varieties have an addictiveness where you just wanna pop one after the other, and these ones never quite get there.
Manufactured by: Mars
Nutritional info (1/4 cup, 42 grams): 200 calories, 8 grams of fat (5 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 65 mg of sodium, 30 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 27 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, lactose, soy lecithin, artificial flavours, salt), sugar, corn syrup, milk ingredients, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cornstarch, lactose, tapioca dextrin, salt, mono and diglycerides, colours (with tartrazine) carnauba wax, cocoa mass, artificial flavour, modified coconut oil and/or modified palm oil (medium chain triglycerides), gum acacia.
